Scotiabank History
Scotiabank’s well-known consumer slogan, introduced in the 2000s, is this phrase about personal wealth.
What is “You’re richer than you think.”?
This 19th-century network of safe houses helped thousands of enslaved African Americans reach freedom in Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
RESPs are used primarily to fund this type of schooling.
What is post‑secondary education?
This phrase, often used by Canadians to show politeness or agreement, frequently ends sentences.
What is "eh"?
This federal law dictates how private-sector organizations must handle personal information in Canada.
What is the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)?
Founded in Halifax in this year, the Bank of Nova Scotia began as a regional bank focused on trade and commerce.
What is 1832?
Born in 1917, this civil rights pioneer was arrested in a Halifax theatre in 1946 for refusing to leave a whites-only section—nine years before Rosa Parks’ more famous incident and appears on the $10 bill
Who is Viola Desmond?
This plan allows tax‑free withdrawals from an RRSP for first‑time homebuyers, provided the funds are repaid over 15 years.
What is the Home Buyers’ Plan (HBP)?
This animal appears on the reverse side of the Canadian nickel.
What is the beaver?
The privacy process that removes or masks identifiers so individuals cannot be directly recognized
What is de-identification or anonymization ?
This Caribbean city was home to Scotiabank’s first branch outside Canada, opened in 1889.
What is Kingston, Jamaica?
This Nova Scotian community founded in 1812 become one of the largest settlements of free Black people in North America, before being destroyed in the 1960s due to urban renewal.
What is Africville?
This year is the deadline by which Canadians must convert their RRSP into a retirement income plan.
What is the year they turn 71?
This Canadian province is the largest by land area.
What is Quebec?
This privacy principle requires organizations to collect only the least amount of personal information needed.
What is data minimization?
In this year, Scotiabank launched its first online banking platform—later known as Scotia OnLine—becoming one of Canada’s earliest adopters of digital banking
What is 1996?
This province became home to many Black Loyalists after the American Revolution, including those who were promised freedom for supporting the British.
What is Nova Scotia?
This is the annual dollar limit Canadians can add to their Tax‑Free Savings Account (TFSA) in 2026.
What is $7,000?
This Canadian prime minister oversaw the patriation of the Constitution and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Who is Pierre Elliot Trudeau
These data points may not identify someone alone, but can reveal identity when combined with other information.
What are quasi-identifiers?
In this year, Scotiabank became the first Canadian bank to appoint a woman as a branch manager, marking a major milestone for gender equality in banking.
What is 1961?
This person was Canada’s first Black Member of Parliament, elected in 1968.
Who is Lincoln Alexander?
This is the exact year RRSPs were introduced in Canada.
What is 1957?
Three sports with Canadian origins include an Indigenous game recognized as Canada’s national summer sport, a winter game that evolved into the country’s most iconic pastime, and a global sport invented in 1891 by Canadian James Naismith.
What are lacrosse, ice hockey, and basketball?
This principal requires organizations to be open about why and how personal data is collected, used and shared.
What is the openness/transparency principle?